I am an urban sociologist and ethnographer and an Assistant Professor in the Department of Sociology and Anthropology at Ohio University. I hold a Ph.D. in Sociology from The University of Texas at Austin, and my research examines the social and spatial dynamics of urban life.

My research ties scholarship from criminology, economic sociology, urban sociology, and the sociology of organizations. I study how markets are mobilized to govern risk, and how private actors shape the infrastructures of security, social order, and inequality in contemporary urban settings.

I examine how global security markets introduce new technologies and professional norms that are transforming labor, space, and governance. In addition, I explore emerging forms of surveillance and the complex relationships between organized crime, the state, and private security actors.

My work has been awarded several honors, including the 2022 International Journal of Urban and Regional Research Fellowship, the 2023 Harry Frank Guggenheim Emerging Scholars Award, The 2023 James Thompson Graduate Student Paper Award, and the 2023 Body and Embodiment Graduate Student Paper Award, among others. My first book manuscript, The New Security Experts: State, Entrepreneurship, and Labor in Mexico City, is currently in progress.

My academic research has appeared in leading journals such as The Annual Review of Criminology, The Socio-Economic Review, Qualitative Sociology, The American Journal of Cultural Sociology, Work and Occupations, and the edited volume Portraits of Persistence, with new and exciting work in the The British Journal of Sociology. I also engage in public sociology, with writing published in OpenDemocracy, SinEmbargo, Work In Progress and other media outlets.